The mission of the Rattler Ready Digital Initiative is to enhance your academic and career success through the use of digital badges, micro-credentials, and co-curricular pathways for success. The focus of the initiative is to align career readiness competencies within academic programs to prepare you for a successful transition into the workplace and post-graduate life.
Career Action Plan
Work with the Career and Professional Development Center (CPDC) to create and follow your personalized Career Action Plan, with action steps based on where you are in your academic and career journey. Learn more about Career Action Plans at FAMU.Strike Forward Program
The FAMU Strike Forward Program guides you through pathways for academic and career success, equipping you with the tools to graduate on time and be ready for career success while clarifying your academic and career goals. By participating in the program, you’ll earn digital badges across pathways such as academic success, financial wellness, career development, and social integration. The program’s pathways are embedded into specific courses, academic programs, and learning experiences that you’ll complete as your progress toward education. The pathways are designed to serve as a roadmap for your success to stay focused on academic and career goals and connect with resources and mentors to support your progression at FAMU.General Education Competency
Demonstrate your knowledge and skills gained in general education core competencies by receiving digital badges that can set you apart in the job market upon graduation. Presently, the available digital badge is the “Fundamentals of Written Communication”. By completing the college course associated with this badge, you will demonstrate information literacy, comprehension of written material, and conveying information in writing for a variety of rhetorical purposes and audiences. You will enhance your personal communication skills and convey to future employers that you have acquired vital skills needed for professional success. As of fall 2022, FAMU will automatically award this digital badge if you enroll and complete the courses, ENC 1101 or ENC 1121 with a grade of “C” or better. Other digital badges will be awarded as they become available.Benefits of the Rattler Ready Program
The Rattler Ready program supports your success to employers by demonstrating proof of skills through digital badges, while also partnering with employers to improve your access to internships and jobs. The program is flexible and personalized, allowing you to choose from a diverse range of badges, and recognizes the impact of non-traditional learning happening outside of the classroom through internships, project-based work, volunteer experience, and more. Ultimately, it supports an environment of network building and collaboration, by facilitating opportunities, skill development, and connections among your peers pursuing similar interests.Getting Started
Rattler Ready is powered by Suitable, an app and website that helps you track your progress through the program. Any time you participate and/or scan into an event, your attendance is recorded and points are added to your account. In some cases, you might have to complete a task before you see your points added to your account. You can check your Suitable account to see your total points, and view the leaderboard & upcoming events.- Download the app
- Use your “@famu.edu” email
- Press continue and login
- Enable Push Notifications
- Enable access to the camera (Camera required to scan QR codes)
- Scan the QR code to earn points!
For Faculty: Integrating the Rattler Ready Program
Faculty can use Rattler Ready for a number of purposes, all of which will help students to gain meaningful and readiness competencies.- Assigning as extra credit.
- Earning badges is a visual representation of skills or knowledge that students have gained and learned during a course or activity.
- Using it for assessment purposes can provide valuable data about student learning to help determine what students learned, how well they learned it, and where they struggled.
